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Royal
cemeteries
of Kush
reveal
intense
devotion
to Egyptian
beliefs
and
ways.
Like
their
mentors,
Kushite
kings
prepared
their
own
burial
cham
bers,
filling
them
with
treasure
and
decorating
them
with
images
that
would
assure
a rich
afterlife.
Unlike
the Egyptians,
however,
they
placed
their
tombs
under
their
pyramids
rather
than
within.
From
19.16
to 1925
George
A. Reisner
of the Museum
of Fine
Arts
in Boston excavated
most
of the
Kushite
royal
tombs
and
estab
lished
a thousand
year
chronology
of
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